Steve Scott on Winning in Life
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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Steve Scott about his book Hey, Tiger―You Need to Move Your Mark Back: 9 Simple Words that Changed the Game of Golf Forever, why having integrity is such a crucial part of being a good athlete and human being, the cautionary tale of Tiger Woods, and more.
Steve Scott is an American former professional Golfer and the current PGA Head Golf Professional of The Outpost Club and Founder of the Silver Club Golfing Society. The defining moment of his career came during his competition against Tiger Woods in the 1996 Amateur Golf Championships. Scott found himself a surprising 5‐up after the first 18, but on the 35th hole Tiger squared the grueling match with an improbable 40‐foot birdie putt. With the result coming down to the last hole, the difference in the outcome actually came earlier, when Scott reminded Woods to move his mark back to its rightful place on the 34th hole. Had Scott not done the morally correct thing, Tiger would have been penalized and, in turn, not gone on to have his legendary career. Since retiring from playing golf, Steve has become a golf teacher, instructor, speaker, and broadcaster. His work can be found at his website stevescottpga.com, and on instagram @sscottpga.
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| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:18.6 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, a short |
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| 0:59.4 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:06.4 | I'm going to start today's episode with a little bit of a story. This is a story I tell, |
| 1:11.4 | briefly in stillness is the key. I've told it length a little bit in some of our YouTube videos. |
| 1:17.4 | But I want to take you back to 1996. It's the US amateur golf championships, Tiger Woods, |
| 1:25.4 | Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, Tiger has won his third straight US amateur title. The first five rounds |
| 1:32.4 | of play are relatively uneventful woods is in the finals and his opponent is a relatively unknown 19-year-old |
| 1:40.4 | Steve Scott. After the first 18 holes, it's a 13, it's a 36 round final. Scott is leading by five. |
| 1:49.4 | The final 18 holes are a battle. Tiger cuts Scott's lead to one, back nine. On a par 3-10, |
| 1:56.4 | Tiger cuts his lead to one. Scott pushes it to two and then Tiger sinks a legendary 35-foot |
| 2:05.4 | putt for an eagle to move within one. It's on the 16th hole, down to three holes to play. Tiger hits |
| 2:11.4 | the wedge shot within six feet of the pin. He places a quarter to mark his ball before picking it up. |
| 2:18.4 | And the marker is in Scott's putting line. So he asks Tiger to slide it over and he does and Scott |
| 2:24.4 | makes his putt. And then forgetting he moved his marker, Tiger puts his ball down and is about to putt |
| 2:30.4 | from the wrong spot. But if he had done, he'd automatically lose the hole and thus the tournament. |
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